Formation fee
$100
One-time state fee for the formation certificate.
last verified 2026-07-17
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Idaho LLC
Idaho prices expedited service in working hours
Speed is Idaho's headline: the statute prices an expedited lane measured in working hours, and the record confirms that lane covers forming an LLC. The office separately posts how far behind its current queue runs, dated as an observation. Yearly paperwork barely registers, with neither a report fee nor a due date on the books, each a checked absence.
the rest of this note
An assumed business name here is filed once and then simply lives: no renewal cycle, no expiry, cancellation only when the owner asks for it. What the certificate does is disclose who trades under the name, and it stops there, conferring nothing like a trademark. Recurring state tax obligations end the same way, marked absent against the statute.
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Annual report
none
This state files no LLC annual report. The absence is verified, not missing data.
verified absent 2026-07-17
Franchise tax
none
No recurring state-level tax on an LLC here. The absence is verified against the state, not missing data.
verified absent 2026-08-07
Anonymous LLC
no
Member or organizer names reach the public formation record here.
last verified 2026-08-06
no source in the snapshot
Processing time
published, not as a range
The state publishes a processing time in prose rather than as a range, so this sheet links it instead of restating it. Expedited formation starts at $40.
as observed on 2026-08-06
Name designators
Must contain the words "Limited Liability Company" or "Limited Company," or the abbreviations "L.L.C.," "LLC," "L.C.," or "LC." The word "Limited" may be abbreviated "Ltd." and "Company" may be abbreviated "Co."
Accepted endings for the legal name. Statute: Idaho Code § 30-21-302(d).
last verified 2026-08-04
Name reservation
$20
Optional filing that holds the name for 4 months before you form.
last verified 2026-08-04
DBA
assumed business name
One statewide register; the filing costs $25.
last verified 2026-08-06
An individual as the agent
allowed
Whether a person may hold the seat, so nobody has to be hired. The terms Idaho attaches, and the entity question, sit in the registered agent section.
last verified 2026-08-09
field 05 carries the date it was observed, not a promise: of the two halves beside it, only the expedited tiers are prices the state commits to
What are the Idaho trade name rules?
Idaho calls it the assumed business name, and keeps one statewide register for it. The state filing costs $25.
- Where an LLC files
- How long it lasts
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Perpetual (no expiration)
An assumed business name is in effect from filing until the owner cancels it under Idaho Code § 30-21-809; there is no renewal.
- Newspaper publication
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not required
- What the filing protects
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no exclusive right
An assumed business name discloses the name a business trades under and grants no exclusive trademark right. It does carry a practical effect: Idaho requires an assumed business name to be distinguishable on the Secretary of State's records, so an active ABN blocks a later entity or ABN that is not distinguishable from it while it stays on file.
- Where to search existing names
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Assumed business names appear in the Secretary of State's SOSBiz business search alongside entities, since they share the same distinguishability records. Idaho keeps DBAs at the state level, so there is no separate county index to check.
one record, verified 2026-08-06 · Idaho Code § 30-21-805
What does it take to register an out-of-state LLC in Idaho?
Registering an LLC formed elsewhere is its own filing in Idaho. The registration costs $100. That price belongs to a separate filing event, so it enters no cost total on this site.
- Registration fee
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$100
Online base filing fee of $100.00 for the Foreign Registration Statement; paper submissions add a $20.00 manual processing fee.
- The official form
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Foreign Registration Statement
- Filed with
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Idaho Secretary of State, Business Services Division
- After registration
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File an annual report with the Idaho Secretary of State and maintain a registered agent in Idaho.
one record, verified 2026-08-08
The same fee for every other jurisdiction sits on one page: foreign qualification fees for every jurisdiction.
Who may serve as the registered agent in Idaho?
Who may serve as an LLC's registered agent is its own rule in Idaho. Idaho lets a natural person serve, so no commercial agent is required. The LLC itself may also hold the seat.
- An individual as the agent
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Allowed
in the state's words An individual who lives in Idaho
- The LLC as its own agent
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Allowed
- A mailbox service as the address
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not read at this pin
- Address rule
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A physical street address in Idaho (no P.O. boxes), available during normal business hours.
one record, verified 2026-08-09
The same four answers for every other jurisdiction sit on one page: registered agent rules for every jurisdiction.
Where do these figures come from?
Every figure on this sheet renders from the pinned dataset snapshot, and each card links the page its own figure came from. This list collects those pages in one place, with the duplicates removed and the agency named.
- Formation and annual report figures https://sos.idaho.gov/business-forms/
- Recurring state tax https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title63/T63CH30/SECT63-3025A/
- Naming statute https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/Title30/T30CH21/SECT30-21-301/
- Name reservation https://sosbiz.idaho.gov/
- Who may be the registered agent https://sos.idaho.gov/business-resources/
- Idaho Secretary of State Business Services https://sosbiz.idaho.gov
- Business entity search https://sosbiz.idaho.gov/search/business
The rule behind every figure here, and what a card does when one cannot be verified, sits on how a figure gets verified.